Read for Envisioning Your School Library Session & Evaluating the Program

Linking for Learning, p. 5-8, 16-18, 19-56
Vision Mission Goals and Objectives for the School Library Media Center
Strategic Planning Toolkit

Agenda for Session

1. Guest Speaker - Don Hamerly, Director of SLMP. He'll be speaking about DU's School Library Media Program Requirements.
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2. Course Housekeeping

3. Talk on History of School Libraries
History of School Libraries Presentation Slides

4. Developing a Mission and Vision for the School Library
Examine Mission & Vision Statements from Linking for Learning (p.5) and Empowering Learners (p.7-8)
  • Read through the mission & vision statement from each document
  • What are key ideas?
  • What overlap do you see?
  • How would you describe a mission/vision statement from reading the examples?

From Empowering Learners:
"The mission of the school library program is to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information. The school librarian empowers students to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic readers, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information by:
  • collaborating with educators and students to design and teach engaging learning experiences that meet individual needs
  • instructing students and assisting educators in using, evaluating, and producing information and ideas through active use of a broad range of appropriate tools, resources, and information technologies
  • providing access to materials in all formats, including up-to-date, high-quality, varied literature to develop and strengthen a love of reading
  • providing students and staff with instruction and resources that reflect current information needs and anticipate changes in technology and education
  • providing leadership int he total educational program and advocating for strong school library programs as essential to meeting local, state, and national education goals."
from AASL Empowering Learners, p. 8

Creating a Mission and Vision Presentation Slides
Go through Vision and Mission Statement Assignment

Other Resources:
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6. Evaluating Your Program
Look at Evaluation Areas from Linking for Learning (p. 17). Keep in mind that for the assessment of school library program assignment that you'll be rating a library on some of these areas.

7. Next Class
Readings - in addition to the readings from the course texts as they are available to you, please make yourself familiar with the following documents:
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